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Forum: Rumours & News
13th Feb 2017, 12:42
Replies: 95
Views: 70,356
Posted By Petercwelch

Sad story

Great sympathy for her. Divorce after long marriage a huge stressor. Wish there were some good reliable solution foe her and United. Unfortunately, best predictor of future behavior is past behavior....
Forum: Rumours & News
11th Jan 2016, 15:08
Replies: 335
Views: 366,732
Posted By Petercwelch

Cargo problem vs. something broke

Can we assume that a problem with cargo e.g. Fire would have happened more gradually and not resulted in such a brief message and descent?
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Nov 2015, 23:29
Replies: 24
Views: 11,484
Posted By Petercwelch

For goodness sake

Please put it back.
Forum: North America
13th Sep 2015, 18:31
Replies: 24
Views: 13,245
Posted By Petercwelch

Not Sean

Do not believe that was Sean Tucker although cannot for some reason get the clip to play again.
Forum: Rumours & News
29th Aug 2015, 14:58
Replies: 68
Views: 35,756
Posted By Petercwelch

Older low level aerobatics

Sean Tucker, despite being in wonderful physical shape, is no youngster but continues to perform near miraculous aerobatics, including ribbob cutting inverted etc.
Forum: Rumours & News
11th Jul 2015, 11:31
Replies: 57
Views: 25,865
Posted By Petercwelch

Much adoo

About nothing. We all realize bullets are no risk except if burned perhaps. Capt. Should have reported and explained. Is there too little common sense flexibility in Germany. Love "he didn't slip it...
Forum: Rumours & News
11th Jul 2015, 11:25
Replies: 97
Views: 50,938
Posted By Petercwelch

Let's get back to the issue

Was the F16 in contact with approach? Was the traffic called? Was the Cessna in contact with approach. We all know see and avoid can be difficult, esp. with fast airplanes. Some problems are...
Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning
28th Sep 2014, 19:26
Replies: 44
Views: 12,585
Posted By Petercwelch

Vanity Fair 447 article

Written for non pilots but some info. I haven't read before. Issues clearly stated. Shouldn't some regular hand flying be required reqired outside the sims? Criuse, at altitude as well as full...
Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning
28th Sep 2014, 15:42
Replies: 44
Views: 12,585
Posted By Petercwelch

Vanity Fair article on 447

Despite a couple of minor errors, a superb layman's explanation of 447 and current automation problem. Suspect we all will learn something from it!
Forum: Rumours & News
1st Jul 2014, 13:54
Replies: 1,147
Views: 488,215
Posted By Petercwelch

Any pilot

Any pilot who can't successfully land the aircraft they are flying on a clear essentially no wind day on an 11,000 foot runway should not be flying, period!
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Apr 2014, 12:01
Replies: 73
Views: 49,264
Posted By Petercwelch

Disagreement = Go around

See my post # 42. Still makes sense to me. Have heard no argument that this is not a good idea!
Forum: Rumours & News
30th Mar 2014, 15:17
Replies: 73
Views: 49,264
Posted By Petercwelch

Rare

If such circumstances are indeed rare, then the rule would not cause many unnecessary go arounds. Lots of room for judgement with such a rule.
Forum: Rumours & News
30th Mar 2014, 11:05
Replies: 73
Views: 49,264
Posted By Petercwelch

Asiana

Thinking about it, it might have prevented the Asiana crash too.
Forum: Rumours & News
30th Mar 2014, 11:03
Replies: 73
Views: 49,264
Posted By Petercwelch

How common is this?

Seems to me that we really have no idea of the frequency with which such a disagreement occurs. Only way to know wouldbe to have an independent entity review a large number of routine CVRs of...
Forum: Rumours & News
30th Mar 2014, 01:44
Replies: 73
Views: 49,264
Posted By Petercwelch

Disagreement

Why can't the fact that there is a disagreement between the Captain and the FO, IN AND OF ITSELF, be a requirement to go around when it occurs during an approach? That seems to me a simple solution....
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Mar 2014, 14:17
Replies: 73
Views: 49,264
Posted By Petercwelch

Educating me

Clunkdriver, thanks for starting to educate me re: task saturation. How easy is it to create this in the sim, and are there any signs of it that identiy it well enough that in and of themselves could...
Forum: Rumours & News
26th Mar 2014, 15:32
Replies: 73
Views: 49,264
Posted By Petercwelch

Incompetent first officers?

It is difficult to understand how any captain, no matter how bone headed could ignore such concern from a first officer. Have any of the captains here ever had a first officer express such discomfort...
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Feb 2014, 07:32
Replies: 1,147
Views: 488,215
Posted By Petercwelch

Says it all

Gretchenfrage's post is the best most succinct explanation of the why of a number of recent accidents. Would that airline management would all read it carefully!
Forum: Tech Log
19th Aug 2013, 12:36
Replies: 1,033
Views: 503,849
Posted By Petercwelch

Poorly stated

Sorry. Do we yet know what settings were entered by the crew, or what mode of autopilot functionwas engaged?
Forum: Tech Log
19th Aug 2013, 12:16
Replies: 1,033
Views: 503,849
Posted By Petercwelch

Autopilot/throttle setting

Latest info is that autopilot/throttles were engaged essentially until ground contact. Doesn't this imply that the autopilot data base was inadequqte or in error, or that the wrong mode was engaged...
Forum: Rumours & News
7th Aug 2013, 14:13
Replies: 512
Views: 314,373
Posted By Petercwelch

Go arounds

Do most professional pilots consider a go around a failure? One would think that in a situation where a problem exists (eg. Hand over of control at 400 feet, concern in SF about speed too slow, can't...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Jul 2013, 18:15
Replies: 2,403
Views: 2,207,289
Posted By Petercwelch

RNAV

Although I only fly a Piper Dakota with garmin 430 WAAS, i assume that the 777 has equipment that would allow them to fly the 28 L RNAV approach which would provide the pilot with a glideslope as...
Forum: Military Aviation
25th May 2013, 22:15
Replies: 376
Views: 54,125
Posted By Petercwelch

No guarantees

Firearms do not come with guarantees that they will help in every case. However, had this soldier been armed, or had the first police on the scene been armed, no one can convince me that this...
Forum: Military Aviation
25th May 2013, 17:53
Replies: 376
Views: 54,125
Posted By Petercwelch

Police Armed? OMG

Still trying to figure out why British police are not trusted to carry fire arms. Despite what the mainsteam media write, in the USA thousands of crimes are prevented each year by citizens with...
Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning
7th Apr 2013, 14:50
Replies: 31
Views: 23,371
Posted By Petercwelch

Complacency vs. Hands on

As a non professional, I wonder whether a manually flown approach every so often wouldn't encourage PF to click/click more quickly. As an occasional passenger on transport aircraft, my expectation is...
Forum: Rumours & News
28th Jan 2013, 11:47
Replies: 524
Views: 447,143
Posted By Petercwelch

Routine events

Attribution of illnesses to environmental factors requires real evidence, not just, I smelled something and then found I had renal cancer etc. i assume that flight departments have access to pilots...
Forum: Rumours & News
8th Aug 2012, 16:14
Replies: 1,316
Views: 403,094
Posted By Petercwelch

Temp use of accelerometer data

True that ground speed is all they know, but absent a remarkable instantaneous change in the wind, they are a good approximation of the status quo. Seems to me that this could be quite useful to the...
Forum: Rumours & News
18th Apr 2012, 16:47
Replies: 213
Views: 82,416
Posted By Petercwelch

Declaring an emergency

In US "I'm declaring an emergency" then stating the nature of it, is PERFECTLY acceptable. Roll the trucks as previously noted is everywhere in US understood by controllers. Flight checks and real...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
5th Apr 2012, 12:27
Replies: 6
Views: 2,897
Posted By Petercwelch

Will be missed

Sad story. Have enjoyed Mr. Pardue at OSH KOSH for many years. Wonder what happened.
Forum: Rumours & News
27th Mar 2012, 23:15
Replies: 289
Views: 125,070
Posted By Petercwelch

Sad story

Terribly sad story for this man and his family. Sometimes people just snap. Hard to see how he would fly again. Imagine the poor first officer. Tough position to find yourself in as a FO.
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Feb 2012, 20:33
Replies: 20
Views: 12,901
Posted By Petercwelch

CPR results

Sadly, the vast majority of cardiac arrests even when CPR is given immediately end fatally. About 5-10% survive. I can't imagine what the cockpit was like for that poor FO. Kudos to FO who sounded...
Forum: Tech Log
13th Dec 2011, 22:21
Replies: 1,412
Views: 472,558
Posted By Petercwelch

Side stick rationale?

What was the rationale for independently moving side sticks in the design phase of the airbus??
Forum: Tech Log
14th Aug 2011, 00:07
Replies: 3,435
Views: 1,674,920
Posted By Petercwelch

AOA

I believe for technical reasons the stall warning was not continuously sounding despite the persistence of an aerodynamic stall. These guys did not recognize a stall IFR at night with lots of other...
Forum: Tech Log
13th Aug 2011, 16:26
Replies: 3,435
Views: 1,674,920
Posted By Petercwelch

Angle of attack

Would not a relatively simple and I believe inexpensive AOA indicator have helped these poor pilots. Why is there not one on the panel or is there?
Forum: Tech Log
7th Aug 2011, 15:16
Replies: 3,435
Views: 1,674,920
Posted By Petercwelch

How about a boeing?

Do most of you agree that a boeing aircraft faced with the same conditions and failure would have clearly handled the problem and not ended up in the drink?
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